In the mist-shrouded Nimba Mountains on the Liberia–Guinea border, rare wildlife and local communities reclaim a landscape scarred by mining. Today, this fragile recovery faces a new threat: a global steel company using conservation promises to brand a new mining venture as green.
With exclusive, on-the-ground access, Overburden follows rangers, scientists, and forest defenders–like Moses Darpey, a hunter turned ranger–as they navigate the tangled frontier where mining meets conservation, and where memory, science, and power collide. The film captures intimate encounters with the mountain’s extraordinary inhabitants, from a viviparous toad found nowhere else on earth to resilient cave-dwelling bats and adaptive chimpanzees.
Overburden tells a powerful story of resilience and transformation in a landscape shaped by industry yet alive with possibility.